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Show Wednesday November 7, 1984 The Thunder hint -- mas Cachectic Observatory SenSs's Country Cupboard Uarliot BY STEVE YATES ,i i- - .a Just some random thoughts horrible mismanagement of time and space on my part, 1 a specific topic this week. I guess it doesnt matter much though, because even when I do have a specific topic, I still dont make any sense. But who cares? I dont want, or even like, to make any sense. But anyhow, today I just plan to sort of let my tiny little mind wander around on its own, and just lightly touch on a few subjects which have been bothering me a bit. Ill just pop around at random and maybe at a later date Ill go into more detail on todays The other day, I was wandering around in the store, just minding my own business, when I happened to hear twp young women talking as they examined a rack of clothing. The first one was looking at a pair of pants Pedal Pushers, I think they were called. You know the kind I mean. About half the shm is exposed, like maybe somebody didnt follow the washing instructions on a pair of pants and they shrank. Well, the first girl turned to her friend and said, Ya know, Mary, I really dont like these pants like this. Her friend replied, Well, Sue, theyre really in. Everyone is wearing them... Sue agieed, a worried look on her face. She didnt want to be left out. So she wound up paying $30 or some other outrageous sum for a pair of shrunken trouseis that she didnt like anvway I never could figure out why people went in for garish, or just plain blue plastic shoes, multiweird, fashions, like shredded sweat-shutcolored hair, etc. I have asked people why they wear these particular fashions. Generally they respond with something like, Hey, don't knock it. I diess this wav to epics my individuality. ..to be different, va know ?" This is all well and good, but when everyone is in fashion, individuality is lost. All that happens is everyone winds up looking different in the same way. If you really want to be different, come to school dressed in an outfit made entirely of old beer cans and tea bags. Now that would be different. Due to a dont have semi-topic- s. wit ! fcmwijulttmrrwn Cliff's Country ! Cupboard Market CSe0dUC;njCUPb0ardMarke,i This Coupon Good For 50C Off Our Regular $2.74 Super Sub with Cheese Cliff's Country This Coupon Good for Phone 586-256- ! I i I 8 25C Oft Monday thru Thursday 8:00 a.m. Single Ice Cream Cone to 8:00 p.m. Expires Dec. 12, 198'4 full-leng- s, If voting chould change the system, it would be illegal. But what do I know? Ive worn the same pair of pants for the last two weeks. Television is another thing that really bothers me. I think we watch far too much of it, and what we watch, for the most part, is garbage. I dont even want to get into that subject, though. I could fill up 123 pages with reasons why I dont like the tube. I shudder to think of yet another generation sitting through the same mindless reruns of shows like Gilligans Island, The Love Boat, and Chips, as the generation before them has done. It is a horrible and endless cycle of decay. They even have a name for our generation: The Pepsi Generation. I resent that stigma. Pespi Generation is just another name for Hyper Generation, where happy youth with enormous grins and unnaturally white teeth shreik with glee, down 16 ounces of soda pop in one gulp and leap off a cliff into a river. I have never done this. I hate television, but I watch it. Perhaps too much. So you can call me a hypocrite. But, you see, once you start watching, its hard to turn it off. It mesmerises you, say, Try to turn me off and Ill electrocute you. It sucks your brain into its phosphor-do- t screen and holds it there. Television is particularly bad at this time of year. There you sit, slumped in your favorite chair, and suddenly, a political message. A deep sinister voice tells you, in effect, This is an election year. It is your right, as an American, to vote. We dont care who you vote for, but vote. You have the freedom to vote as you choose. Dont throw your freedom away. At this point, I usually throw something at the screen and yell, Hal! If voting could change the system, it would be illegal. People say, Dont vote for candidate X, hes horrible. Vote tor candidate Z. Hes bad, but not as bad as X. In other words, vote for the lesser of two evils. Or in some cases, dont vote for the evil of two lessers. What kind of a choice is this? Its no choice at all. Its like saying, OK, were going to hurt you really bad. Do you want both your arms broken or both your legs broken? If you are smart, you will run away before they can do either. If you believe, really believe, in your candidate, then vote. By all means, vote. But if it comes down to a choice between the lesser of two evils, then exercise your freedom not to participate. Otherwise, freedom to vote become an empty phrase. Tell your Mom and Dad Everything that goes on at S.U.S.C. f (u-s'by sending the O Thunderbird home for just A' $9.00 a year! t di - - y (Well almost everything.) ' NjNV f "V Page 5 m |
